Blog | Sascha Frank Lukas

After some weeks of inactivity i came up with some site updates. The Services and the About sections have been updated with new information. The Media section got a new item called "Pendemic". On the Pendemic site you can find information and images on this university project. We were a group of seven students and created a 2D Jump'n'Run Flash game with lots of bash game components, look here:

Besides my study i work on several game and short film projects. I also work on a learning book project for school's geography lessons and a serious game project for German universities in form of an advanced e-learning platform for future project managers.
In all those projects it's my task to produce all kinds of 2D and 3D media and to consult everyone in terms of technical issues.
The only project i can show some things for at the moment is a short film project which is produced by a group of amateur filmmakers and 3D artists. The film will take part in the upcoming Animago short film contest and hopefully will rock the house. My task is the modelling and texturing of the 3D VFX parts of the film. The film combines real footage with 3D elements. Here are some screenshots and two rather simple, quick test renderings showing two characters for a wide, vfx shot:

Uploaded a new 3D animation. It's a particle animation of two light streaks, depicting fire and ice. Enjoy!

More information: The Coexistence - Fire & Ice

I just found a newspaper article via Google with me. The article is from last year and was published in a regional newspaper. It's funny to unexpectedly come across articles about your own work ;)

After tons of discussions, work and stress "perpetuum publishing" brought out its first book. It is a detailed textbook and makes up an introduction for the wide field of geography. The book is produced and published from students for students. Hopefully it is the first book of a whole series of textbooks on various fields of interest.
A friend of mine opened up a publishing house with me as a coequal business associate. My main task are the production of graphics and the coordination of technical issues concerning two- and three-dimensional graphics. The production and administration of www.perpetuum-publishing.com also belongs to my fields of work.

It is a german book and available in book stores and soon on Amazon, too.

ISBN 978-3-9813638-0-7

Germany: € 11,50

"Wir Kartographen" on Amazon

Besides several projects for university, from Flash games, Flex applications, lots of analog drawing and design tasks, short films to the final exams i took myself some time and created tattoo graphics.

More information: SFL Tattoos

Hope everyone had a nice and calm christmas time, i definitely had. I recently added three new menus: a main menu "Services" at the top and two sub menus on the right, called "Press Articles" and "Co-Productions".

The "Services" section will provide all informations on commerical services and work i provide.
The items belonging to "Press Articles" and the ones belonging to "Co-Productions" simply are links to external web articles/presences. So i can link to articles about my work and to sites of peoples/companies i cooperate with.

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A friend of mine needs a compass for a book cover. Today i made a first test. Modelled a quick, fairly simple compass.

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Since last week i'm working on an intro for the SFL "brand". It'll be a about 7 seconds in 1920x1080. I started with creating the SFL alien in 3D. I didn't expect that this would be a hard job. But it was really hard. I don't know if i'm the only one who thinks so, but i find it much more difficult to create simple forms than to create complex ones. It takes a lot more time and tweaking until i'm happy with a simple model than it takes me with a complex model.
Furthermore i want to gain a decent recognition value. So that one can see the connection betwenn the 2D and the 3D alien. And of course the alien has to look as cool as possible ;) Here are some shots from the final alien model. More following soon.

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Although my today's task is to finish renovation of my new room, i finished the Tools section instead. When i turned on my pc this morning i wanted to upload one or two tools. But i wasn't able to stop. It was just fun and so i uploaded one tool after the other and finally the Tools section is up-to-date.

After i moved places and now have internet access i began uploading some tools. Tomorrow i want all tools to be online. Hope to get this where i want it to be.

Once again i can't believe it. This is the forth overall redesign of my website. But i'm as happy as a school child who is eating a huge, colored, delicious lollipop that the first content is back online. I thought a lot about how i want to build the structure of the site. And what and how i want to present it.

It is my aim now to create a website that suites my needs for at least the next 3-4 years. Compared to all previous designs and contents, i now want to present my multmedia content in a much more detailed way. So that my site characterizes me and my abilities. Of course that should be the aim of every website, but i have to admit that until this relaunch this came much to short. Hope to make further progress tomorrow.

Tweaking here, tweaking there, changing everything, everywhere. My goodness, i find myself rebuilding and rebuilding every little aspect of my mew CMS. I like it very much, it's called Drupal. Before that i used Joomla, but for me its backend was too confusing and its core features couldn't convince me at all. After one year with Joomla i felt it was time for a change. I read tons of threads and posts about content management systems. Every system i found had either way too less features or was as overloaded as Joomla. But finally if found Drupal and instantly fell in love with it.
Now, after two weeks, i feel comfortable with it and ready for take off.